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Mr. Osboru said that there had been an unverifled report of its occur- 

 rence in Iowa. He believes that the plaster treatment of the dung will 

 be practicable in his State. 



Mr. Fletcher said that many remedies which are considered imprac- 

 ticable by farmers prove eventually to be very practicable, and lie in- 

 stanced the poisoned ball system for cutworms, and said that standing 

 grain can be sprayed with knapsack pumps. 



The Secretary then read the following, which was addressed to the 

 President, Mr. Fletcher : 



NOTES OF THE SEASON. 



By Elkanok A. Okmekod, St. Albans, England. 



You pay me the compliment of suggesting that I should send a short 

 report of my entomological work of this year up to present date. 

 But though it would indeed be a gratification to me if anythiug I could 

 mention should bethought of interest, yet I feel such a hesitation in 

 submitting anything I can say to such a supremely well skilled tri- 

 bunal as thatof the meetingof the Association of Economic Entomolgists 

 at Washington, that I will rather endeavor to give, in letter form to 

 yourself, some notes of what we have been doing, from which, if you 

 judge fit, you could lay some points, with my best respects, before 

 the meeting. 



Paris green. — I think that I may now report the use of Paris green 

 in fluid state (as a remedy for attacks of orchard caterpillars) as 

 having thoroughly taken root in this country. It is not yet as widely 

 spread as could be wished, but the very large amount of inquiry 

 sent me during the spring and summer months as to the nature and 

 method of application of the remedy gives me good hope that its use 

 is extending. 



We have uearlj^, if not entirely, overcome the clamor as to the use of 

 a "deadly i^oison," and now I have rather to attend to the other side of 

 the question and warn as to the necessities of care. 



My correspondents are not without a sort of dry jocoseness in the 

 matter, for having cautioned one inquirer that if he sprayed his goose- 

 berries he had better have a large gooseberry pie made and consumed 

 by himself and household as a proof that all was right, I presently 

 received a donation of as fine green gooseberries as could be desired. 

 Did he wish to transfer the experiment, I wonder ? About effect of 

 Paris green on leafage, one of my correspondents reports to me that in 

 his plum gardens (32 acres) he syringed twice with Paris green at a 

 strength of 1 ounce to 10 gallons, using the '■'■ Gelair " sprayer. He did 

 not begin until the plum blossoms fell, and had to syringe twice because 

 of the badness of the attack, also because rain came. The syringing 

 was very carefully done so that there was no observable dropping from 



